Brian Winston

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Messages

Free Expression, Media and the West from Gutenberg to Google

Beschreibung

Free expression is in trouble.It can no longer be certain of its best protection--"the general will of the people" -- as Alexander Hamilton put it over two centuries ago. Today, the public, faced with the excesses of tabloid journalism and explicitness of all kinds in other media, appears no longer to be convinced that free expression is a crucial foundation of civil society. Yet, for all its faults, free expression under the law has, as Churchill once said of democracy, to be better than any alternative system. "Messages" is a search for the origins of media forms, from print and stage to photography, film and broadcasting. With a wealth of illuminating anecdotes and quotations, Brian Winston clearly and forcefully argues, in jargon-free language, that the development of mass media has been an essential engine underpinning all human rights and driving the Western concept of the individual.

Autor

Brian Winston, currently a Pro-Vice Chancellor at the University of Lincoln, worked in the 1960s on Granada TV's World in Action; then for the BBC and WNET (New York) where he won an Emmy for documentary script writing in 1985, as a columnist on Ink, The Soho (New York)Weekly News and The Listener, as a co-producer of a Canadian feature film and a governor of the BFI. He has taught at Universities on both sides of the Atlantic and at Britain's National Film School. Messages is his thirteenth book.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. November 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 834g
• ISBN-13: 9780415232227
• ISBN-10: 0415232228
• Artikelnr.: 21051136

Rezensionen

'An astonishingly well-detailed but highly readable overview of the development of ideas and practices about freedom of speech ... [this book] makes a point, a rare statement of academic and societal importance' - Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television

'An astonishingly well-detailed but highly readable overview of the development of ideas and practices about freedom of speech ... [this book] makes a point, a rare statement of academic and societal importance' - Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television

'told with such gusto, energy and panache that [this book] should be required reading for any media scholar or student trying to understand where

the media come from... Messages provides critical and often debunking insights into the received wisdom of the birth of new media and mass communication... Readers of Winston's previous work will not be surprised by the erudition and the sheer scale of the author's knowledge of the development of media technologies. But Messages also reminds us of the lasting and significant contribution that Brian Winston has made to the field of media and communication studies over the years.' - European Journal of Communication

'an astonishingly well-detailed but highly readable overview of the development of ideas and practices about freedom of speech... an impressive account of media history, media freedom and individual expression... a praiseworthy achievement and a commendable work to keep on the bedside table.' - Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television

'the historical research is thorough and wide-ranging... the tone is lucid, straightforward, and spiced with snarky moments' - International Journal of Communication

'commendably accessible... There is a fine selection of reading, signposting to the interested reader a range of more specialized histories for further exploration... As a general text of considerable wit and erudition it succeeds with aplomb.' - Martin Conboy, Journalism Practice